You know you can: CS:S on MacBook

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Spookster187

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Yes, you know its possible. You guys are even popular on YouTube for it. Now, spit it out, lol.

I am really stuck, and I finally decided to come to you guys after searching around Mac boards, SteamPowered, etc. and still nothing. Just empty topics of people with the same problem, sadly, with no replies.

So this is my stand-point:

I have my MacBook, the specs are good enough to run AA (ya I know, don't hound me was just testing 2.8), and I am just trying (right now) to get a 1v1 bot game going on lowest settings on CS:S and work my way up to test my limits. Hoping they will go far, of course.

So I have BootCamp (not CrossOver, if that makes a diff.) installed running WinXP. I installed Steam, and I installed CS:S. I went and downloaded DirectX 9.0c and tested all settings. (I have DxDiag.txt if needed) All tests came back successful.

My problem is this: I get the CS:S loading screen, you know the two guys in the back and "Loading" in the bottom right. Although, as soon as it gets the menu loaded, the screen goes black. Menu sounds still work, etc, so its a graphics problem. Although the graphics card shouldn't have any problems in my mind, for crying out loud it plays HD movies here =P.

I have tried setting launch instructions, such as -window, -dxlevel 90, -d3d, -gl, -soft, -autoconfig and many variations of them, although to no avail.

So, any help? Sorry if I posted in the wrong forum, and if I did a simple move please? Thanks!

Best regards,
 
Have you got drivers for you GFX card, Not sure if you need them to run source or not, and i dont think it states in the little post up there, if it does sorry cant read :(
 
I am not fully sure, rofl. Honestly it doesn't even seem that Windows recognizes my GFX card or what, iunno. Steam does say the GFX is unknown, although it was still possible on the video.

I will keep trying to get some drivers. =)
 
Any ideas where I would find drivers for a MacBook using Windows? I have tried to "Update Drivers" but it says Cannot Continue after searching windows update or whatever for some time =P.
 
Lol, call who? Steam? They would tell me to go buy a PC and they don't support Mac. Call Frag? Lol I don't know his number, and he seems like the only person on this planet right now knowing how to do this haha.

My main question is whether or not its necessary for me to use CrossOver rather than BootCamp

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To be honest, no idea on ATI drivers. Any links? I used to be a hardcore PC user, but moved to mac as I design websites and its easier for me. So when I was on PC never really had issues with needing drivers.
 
name='Spookster187' said:
To be honest, no idea on ATI drivers. Any links? I used to be a hardcore PC user, but moved to mac as I design websites and its easier for me. So when I was on PC never really had issues with needing drivers.
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For a macbook pro:

You could try the Mobile Catalyst

http://ati.amd.com/online/mobilecatalyst/

or Omegas

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

or the Catalyst drivers (you can get a mobility mod tool to use these)

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?id=18

For a macbook:

http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/

They should be included in the chipset drivers

I'm not sure how good the GMA 950 is, but it is no-where near as good as the ATI x1600 that is in the macbook pro.
 
name='Spookster187' said:
Lol, call who? Steam? They would tell me to go buy a PC and they don't support Mac. Call Frag? Lol I don't know his number, and he seems like the only person on this planet right now knowing how to do this haha.

My main question is whether or not its necessary for me to use CrossOver rather than BootCamp

EDIT

To be honest, no idea on ATI drivers. Any links? I used to be a hardcore PC user, but moved to mac as I design websites and its easier for me. So when I was on PC never really had issues with needing drivers.
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Eh, You said the video card was unknown, I am assuming that if you could find it, it would be straight forward finding them drivers on ATI's site. Never meant call frag or steam. Assuming you don't know what gfx card it is.
 
Here's some benchmarks from people:

1440*900 all settings high except AA, I get around 50-80 FPS

MacBook Pro 1.83 1.5GB RAM 128MB Vid RAM
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Seems like the macbook pro just about runs it @ 60fps with its x1600 mobility.

I have a 20" iMac Core Duo with 2GB RAM and Counter Stike Source runs great.

Tweak settings and it plays really good. And I DONT mean set everything to minimum. In fact settings are pretty high. 55-80 fps. I do have the 256MB Video card though.
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The imac 20" has a x1600 mobility also.
 
name='equk' said:
Here's some benchmarks from people:

Seems like the macbook pro just about runs it @ 60fps with its x1600 mobility.

The imac 20" has a x1600 mobility also.
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Yes, I have heard that once you get it running, its recommended you set the max FPS to 60-65.

As well, CodeWeavers provides this:

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=2036;tips=1

It has a nice list of things to throw in Console for better performance.
 
To let everyone know, I have installed CrossOver, and currently am downloading source to see if it works first try without any drivers and such. If so it is a Windows compatibility issue with my GFX card for sure, and the simple fix would to find a driver for the fix... which I will continue to work on.

Will keep updated.
 
what do you have?

a macbook or a macbook pro?

if a macbook pro runs it at 60fps, the macbook will prob run it at 20fps or something :(
 
name='Spookster187' said:
To let everyone know, I have installed CrossOver, and currently am downloading source to see if it works first try without any drivers and such. If so it is a Windows compatibility issue with my GFX card for sure
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Windows and OSX are totally different, the x1600 mobility GPU's are compatable with both windows and OSX.

The only difference is on OSX the drivers are already there, but on windows you need to download them.

It's prob the same for the Intel GMA.

Also if you do get it running via crossover, the fps will be very low and unstable. You will also need to run it at dxlevel 7 or 81, probably in windowed mode.

You will get better performance via bootcamp for obvious reasons.
 
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